How to be You - Reading and Reviewing Ellie Middleton's Second Book!
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Lena Smith
2025-12-30 21:19:08 +0000 UTCLove the bare minimum monday section. As someone who (somehow) manages to keep up a 40 hour a week job, every day is bare-minimum-Monday outside of work. Storebought muffin for breakfast, coffee on the way out, showering realistically every other day, eating out every night, maybe doing one cleaning task a day. The only thing on the to do list is the biggest problem that is causing you the most stress at that moment, and then once that is done you can reassess and see if you have energy remaining for the next thing. No need for a list, trust me the thing that needs to be done badly enough will make itself known to you. (Fortunately I dont have much at the moment that can fall through the cracks, bills on autopay etc. So obviously not a great long term strategy with kids or other outside responsibilities)
Jonathon
2025-12-12 01:52:52 +0000 UTCOoh, I'll look that one up! Thank you!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2025-12-02 22:00:23 +0000 UTCPossible book to read and review โNormally Weird and Weirdly Normal: my adventures in neurodiversityโ by Robin Ince
Tessa Coker
2025-11-22 01:29:57 +0000 UTCGood you put the toilet reminder in there! I realized it was really urgent when you mentioned it ๐
Mattias Lundell
2025-11-16 21:30:17 +0000 UTCTrouble is, I find masking absolutely essential to protecting my sanity . In the days before I learned to mask, I would be happily going about my business sometimes, only to realise that someone was watching me with a confused smile, at which point I would forget how to do what I had been doing, and why I was enjoying it in the first place, and I would just want to go and hide. Now Iโve perfected the art of never relaxing when others are around, keeping a tight rein on my facial expressions, and always having a running dialogue in my head, ready to explain what Iโm doing, why Iโm doing it and why Iโm doing it that particular way. Exhausting? You bet. But I get so dysregulated otherwise that, for me, itโs the only way I can be around other people. (Unfortunately peri-menopause is playing havoc with all of it, but thatโs another extremely long comment! ๐)
Elyssia Cook
2025-11-11 22:14:42 +0000 UTC1:35:41. All my clothes are neatly stored- in true adhd style on the back of a chair.
Elyssia Cook
2025-11-11 22:01:57 +0000 UTCI think my strong emotional responses allowed me to be more curious sometimes, as I could step into uncertainty further than might have been prudent. My reactivity would be like a switch flipped. I could flip from being plesant to run or fight my way out(mostly run :D) before anyone would know what was going on. I think I'm trying to say, that not only enjoyment and "positive" emotions can be nice when strongly felt. Those protective emotions like anger and fear allowed me to go places unharmed.. And I do love to poke my nose in and follow my ill adviced curiosity, so thats nice. Thanks for that realisation :))
Iambaby
2025-11-11 08:50:40 +0000 UTC๐
Katie Flanagan
2025-11-06 19:03:41 +0000 UTC๐
MJL
2025-11-06 02:32:22 +0000 UTC๐
Tessa Coker
2025-11-03 19:07:12 +0000 UTC
